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saying: "Teacher, Moses said that if a man dies, having no children, his brother shall marry his wife and raise up offspring for his brother.
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Now there were with us seven brothers. The first died after he had married, and having no offspring, left his wife to his brother.
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Likewise the second also, and the third, even to the seventh.
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Last of all the woman died also.
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Therefore, in the resurrection, whose wife of the seven will she be? For they all had her."
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Jesus answered and said to them, "You are mistaken, not knowing the Scriptures nor the power of God.
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For in the resurrection they neither marry nor are given in marriage, but are like angels of God in heaven.
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But concerning the resurrection of the dead, have you not read what was spoken to you by God, saying,
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'I am the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob'? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living."
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And when the multitudes heard this, they were astonished at His teaching.
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But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.